written on Thursday, Jun. 19, 2003 at 2:12 p.m
After today I will probably not update until Sunday. Chicky is coming up and I have a jacked up work schedule, so alas, that will not leave me much free time.
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Apparently Boy, Punky, ET & I can turn even laundry into an ordeal. We took some laundry over last night, tossed it in and came back to the house. We went back over and uneventfully changed it to the dryer.
Afterward I decided it was time to try to install the CD Burner on the computer myself. We've had it since Xmas and haven't had it put in yet. So, Punky and I sit in the floor, screwdriver and manuals in hand. We whip off the casing and stare fearfully at my computers insides. After a few minutes of poking around, we decide our best option would be to remove the worthless zip drive and put the burner in that slot. since the other slot seems just short of impossible to get at.
We take it out, and drop the CD burner in. The cables get connected. We decide we should probably check the manual just to be sure everything is connected. At this point we see words like "Master" and "Slave". We start looking for those words and find "Slave" and "Hercules". WTF? Hercules? The manual doesn't say HERCULES, it says MASTER. At that point we decide to abandon the project while we were still ahead and just put it all back together.
I'm happy to say we successfully reinstalled the zip drive and put the cover back on. Congrats, we broke even.
It took us over 2 hours to do that. We completely forgot about the laundry. By this point it was after midnight. We went to the laundry room to find it was locked. It wouldn't have been a big deal to wait til morning except that all of Jeff's work clothes were in there and he had to be at work at 7 am.
Off we went to cruise the parking lot looking for a security guard. Eventually we found one, but apparently we interrupted an "incident". They were just planning to go inside a building to figure out why there were people in there. So we went and waited for them to be done.
Finally the hot, huge security guard came to let us in. Only he couldn't seem to get the door open. They have to use a hanger to pry the handle down. Nice, eh? After fucking with it for like 20 minutes, he finally let us in and our laundry was released.
Geesh.
Excitement.
Love,
